Meltdown and Spectre are two different—but equally nasty—exploits in hardware. They are local, read-only exploits not known to corrupt, delete, nor modify data. For local single user laptops, such as Librem laptops, this is not as large of a threat as on shared servers—where a user on one virtual machine could access another user’s data on [...]Intel, AMD, and ARM seem to suffer from the same issues that proprietary software suffers from: a lack of transparency that results in an unethical design which shifts us further away from an ethical society. RISC-V is something we are closely following in the hopes that it can create a future where processor hardware can be as ethical as Free Software—meaning that the user is in control of their own hardware and software, not the developer.